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    • Sep 8, 2017
    Singer/songwriter Don Williams dies in Mobile, Alabama. A 2010 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the "Gentle Giant" left a string of 44 Top 10 singles, including landmark hits "Tulsa Time," "I Believe In You" and "Good Ole Boys Like Me"
    Sep 12, 2017
    Former South Carolina Gamecocks football player Alex Hawkins dies in Columbia. He was credited as a co-writer of the Collin Raye country hit "That's My Story"
    Sep 18, 2017
    Songwriter/guitarist Mark Selby dies of cancer. He authored The Dixie Chicks' "There's Your Trouble" and Tammy Cochran's "I Cry"
    Oct 1, 2017
    Songwriter Kenny Beard dies in Tennessee. His credits include Tracy Lawrence's "Is That A Tear," Aaron Tippin's "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" and Trace Adkins' "The Rest Of Mine"
    Oct 2, 2017
    Rocker Tom Petty dies of cardiac arrest at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles following an accidental overdose of painkillers for multiple ailments, including a broken hip. The author of Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and Roy Orbison's "You Got It," he sang on Hank Williams Jr.'s remake of "Mind Your Own Business"
    Oct 24, 2017
    Fats Domino dies in New Orleans. The R&B singer/songwriter was best known for "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That A Shame." His recording "Walking To New Orleans" is ranked among country's 500 greatest singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 28, 2017
    Songwriter and Southern California TV host Billy Mize dies at a nursing home in Pleasanton, California. He authored Charlie Walker's hit "Who Will Buy The Wine" and played steel guitar on Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down"
    Nov 19, 2017
    Mel Tillis dies at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he earned the CMA's Entertainer of the Year in 1976. The self-proclaimed stutterin' boy had hits as an artist and as the writer of "Detroit City" and "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"
    Jan 2, 2018
    Producer Rick Hall dies at his home in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In addition to directing hits by Aretha Franklin, Clarence Carter and The Osmonds, Hall produced country singles by Shenandoah, T.G. Sheppard, Mac Davis and Jerry Reed
    Feb 5, 2018
    Guitarist George McCormick dies at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center in Tennessee. He played on Dolly Parton's "Coat Of Many Colors" and The Louvin Brothers' "Cash On The Barrel Head." He also penned Porter Wagoner's "Big Wind"



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